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Show ound the Capital Information and Gossip Picked Up Here and There in Washington. SON OF ADMIRAL EVANS Although Rear Admiral Robley D. Evans relinquished the command of the battleship fleet a short time ago, yet there is another member of the family in the naval service and at present attached to the battleship Louisiana, with the fleet at San Francisco. This officer is Lieut. Franck Taylor Evans, of the only son of the former commander-ln-chiethe Atlantic fleet. Resembling his father in looks, the younger Evans had made a very creditable record since his entrance in the navy, 14 years ago. He was born In Switzerland, while his father was attached to the European fleet in the 70's September 6, 1894, he was appointed to the nava. Completing his academy at large. course of Instruction at the academy in 1898, hf was graduated from that institution. In April of that year, and just before the outbreak of the Spanish war he was assigned to the battleshrp Massachusetts, commanded by Capt. Fran cis J. Higginson. He served on the Massachusetts through the war, taking part In the bombardment at Santiago, San Juan and in a number of engage ments in Cuban waters. He remained on the Massachusetts until 1899, whee he was transferred to the gunboat Nashville. In 1900 he was assigned to tht Brutus on the Asiatic station. In 1904 he was assigned to President Roosevelts yacht Sylph as hei commanding officer and remained on her until the latter part of 1905, when he was ordered to Newport News for duty in connection with the fitting out ol the new 16,000-tobattleship Louisiana. When she was commissioned in 190f he waB assigned to duty on her. He made the trip on the Louisiana, when Bhe took President Roosevelt to Panama, and also on the cruise from Hampton Roads to San Francisco. He was promoted to the grade of lieutenant on July 1, 1904. i i i Sixtieth Congress Ends First Session dozen currency bills, for in the early days of the sessions nearly every iegj lator had a panacea for the country! financial ills. The more the members studied the question the less the? seemed to understand It and in closing weeks few of them would ad mit to expert knowledge of the f i 4 l sub-jec- WASHINGTON. four-year- s n FIDDLER BOB TAYLOR With the passing currency meas- The rush of bills kept up all winter the total number presented In the two branches of congress being 29,215 The house members introduced 22,035 and the senators 7,180. A great many of these measures were private pen ure and a few remaining appropriation bills, the first session of the Sixtieth congress has passed Into history. What Speaker Cannon calls the sion bills, only a small percentage ol with which finally became laws. During the mill was well nigh choked was first session of the Fifty-nintwould-bthat con legislation crammed into the hopper during the gress, which continued five weeks session. There have been bills of all longer than the recent session, 9, 515 varieties, shades and sizes. Bills for bills were introduced in the house anc the regulation of nearly everything 6,556 in the senate. under the sun have been introduced. All previous records were broken by Ncjtwithstanding the diminishing rev- the senate in the amount of executlvi enues and the warnings that the treas- business which was transacted. Thir treaties were ratified and made ury was facing an alnfcst certain deficit there was no abatement of the public, most of them arbitration If all the treaties. clamor for appropriations. The Congressional Record appropriations asked for had been will disclose that fewer speeches were granted the government debt would made than in times gone by owing to If we had put the fact, that John Sharp Williams inbe multiplied tenfold. d of the bills that augurated a filibuster several months through were offered us, said a prominent ago. Instead of speeches the record is member of the house, more than a filled with roll calls. About 45 micentury would be required to straight- nutes are required to call and verify en out the conglomerate mass. the roll of the house. There were over All records were broken by the num- 200 roll calls, most of them on Inconsber of bills Introduced during the ses- equential questions like adjournment, sion. Senators and representatives recess, approval of the Journal, etc,, came to Washington last fall with so that the net results of Mr. WiTIE poTTtR AT US WHEXb ' their grips full of bills, and between lliams dilatory campaign was that tasks very lengthy ones. The pro- 5,000 and 6,000 were Introduced the approximately six days of 24 hours fession belongs to the Arts, and is not first day. Among them were several each were wasted. reckoned in the commercial output oi the country, like ceramics and lacquei work. In almost all the other callings a whole family can be employed at was leaving the building. Excuses the same time, even the little children were telephoned the president, who, it helping in the primary processes; but is said, is far less apt to look with the carver works alone, and probably leniency on absence from the tennis requires much domestic waiting on cabinet than he is on failure to apfrom his family, since he dare not pear at the regular councils in the spoil his delicate touch by any roughcabinet room. He wished to know er labor. why. It was explained that Mr. Bryce Far at the other end of the artistic had come to take up an important social scale sits the potter bending entire diplomatic corps is matter, and that Mr, Bacons presence over his work with a face of mournful THE over the way Ambassa- at the department was necessary. intentness, his left hand mechanically dor Bryce, of Great Britain, unwittingUnder the circumstances he had to spinning his jar in its rounded socket ly interfered the other afternoon with let Bacon off. A hurry call was sent while the right shapes the brim to a a specially called session of the ten- for to make up the Garfield smooth edge. Here is monotony in- nis cabinet, to the discomfiture of set Secretary He could not be found for some deed, for the white or red or black President Roosevelt and his time, so until he reported a three earthenware is very friable before M. Jusserand, of France. handed game wras played, Jusserand the last baking and only lends itsell The president had summoned the and Cooley easily making the presi to the simplest forms. The pure M7 IVaPY-CmvZP- L racquet wielders for 4:30 p. m. ou the dent their victim. white is devoted exclusively to fune-teaWhite House courts. Jusserand and When Bryce was Informed of the A wayfarer once and religious uses, and has per- Assistant Atty.-GeCooley responded matter he expressed deep regret, sayhedto a condole with Dorset paused haps been adopted because such ves- promptly. ing that his interference with the ger on the dullness and monotony of sels must be of the most severe Assistant of State Bacon game was entirely unintentional and Secretary his work. Ah, well, sir, the rustic shapes and quite without ornament was the member who failed to had he suspected such an unhappy only replied, it all brings night. The end The red or black clay is used for answer the call. He had just started outcome of his visit he would have of his day was the one bright spot on everything else the red for holding from his office at 4:26 for the scene delayed the diplomatic Interests of his horizon. The Japanese workman water and grain, the black for cook- when Ambassador Bryce appeared at his country for a few hours. He laughtakes a happier view of his fate, goes ing utensils. The deep rich glaze of the state department. He had come ingly voiced the hope that there on with his task as long as it is pos- the black and the soft earthiness of to discuss one of the pending treaties. would be no serious entanglement bethe red accord well with the brown sible, and seems to leave It with re- house Secretary Root at once sent for his tween Great Britain and France on porch where so much of the assistant one lands In Japan one and caught him just as he account of the episode. gret. When of life is done and where on receives the Impression that bread- work days the few humble plants winning Is there counted among the bright are brought out to grow in the sun. of life. pleasures The potter always Beems to be someWhether the occupation be a rough thing of a philosopher; he will be then known as New Spain, against the and laborious one, such as the cultivapoor to the end of his days, for mother country. This war began in or of of the the tion rlco, pounding though everyone needs his wares, th6 , 1821, and lasted seven months, ending grain under the huge extreme care with which they are in tho success of the colonies, the which It takes two strong men to han- used makes them last for many years leader of the army, Iturbide, becoming dle, or the ornamentation of delicate I never have seen a devoted This state of affairs was emperor. porcelain, or the still more strenuous solely to them. Yet he shop is content tc , concluded in about a year by the aband minute work of work on till his back is bent with long dication of the emperor, who sailed for both laborer and artist seem to bring stooping and he comes to resemble to it the unspoiled joy of the born one Europe, in which country he made of those figures which the PRINCE AUGUSTINE DE his home for some time. worker, with whom patience and hope Japanese love squat grandson of the great libto twist into vases oi run hand in hand, to complete the Hearing that his native land was to ciear mugs, the back of the neck be- erator of Mexico, heir to a throne, task a3 perfectly as possible. be made the object of attack by the man of the world, highly educated, ing scooped out to provide the need If they ard content to apply them- ful hollow. Between him European powers, he returned to Mex a and widely member of the traveled, and the selves to one slow task day in and day painter of delicate china a doree of many European ico only to find that the republic which jeunesse great gulf has forsaken the ways of the had existed during his absence had out, it is because they manage to be lies. It Is, I think, only of late years, capitals, in in it, seeing always iriterested since the opening of so many Indus fashionable world and Joined the Third made a law that his life should be forfeited sfiould he again set foot on every stroke a prophecy of the fair trial schools, that wompn have beer Order of St. Francis. result. This holds most especially employed on this, work, which seems Interwoven with his life is the ro- Mexican soil. with the craftsmen, who are really so appropriate for them, mantic history of the Land of the CacThis was in 1824. The family of the though deli s tus for are, and cacy of touch comes the last hundred artists, as the and the emperor came to this country, settling years, naturally to all as their ancestors for hundreds of classes of of fate the in Washington and Philadelphia. melancholy Austrian archthe wrist Japanese, long years have probably been. Not in one training required for their caligraphy duke, Maximilian. By right of descent In Washington fashionable society from the Emperor Iturbide, as well as Prince Iturbide was or two generations can the unerring proving of immense value in paintprominent for eye, the firm but magically fine touch, ing. The brush is held, like the writ- from the fact that he was declared many years. Suffering recently from be developed. Ivory. Is a strange ma- ing fudo, more in the hand than heir by Maximilian, Prince Iturbide severe illness, he has of late spent tusk in the fingers, and is almost would be entitled to the throne of terial; the most perfect-lookinmany months in thq hospital. Prince upright, may prove to have internal Btrlatlons giving thus a clearness and value to Mexico were that country again to be- Iturbide now asserts that he has reand flaws which necessitate a modi- the stroke quite unattainable by our come an empire. nounced all political ambition, and fication of design when the work Is slanted point. For china The Emperor Iturbide was born in that he will never make any attempt painting The tiny imagination and sense of color are 1783, led the revolt of the colonies, to already well advanced. his claims in Mexico. regain netsukes, of which collectors have needed, as well as great suppleness carried whole cargoes away, are of wrist The more elaborately-mouldecarved from the Imperfect pieces pieces give the note where natural which could not otherwise be used. objects are represented, but In the Imagination is the special gift, of parely fanciful designs the taste ol mated content available for future use 5UPPLY OF the Ivory carver; he needs It at every tho decorator has full scope. Unforof nearly two thousand' billion tons. COAL Will? turn. The man who sits, day after tunately, In the department of ceramWith the maintenance of the rale ol LAST '50 day, evolving a whole procession of ics, as In so many others, much increase of coal consumption that has held for the last 50 years the supply elephants out of one huge tusk has beauty has been sacrificed to meet the never seen more than one, and that approval of the foreign market. Imof early available coal will, according the moody captive at Alaska, in his mense labor Is expended on to Ihe director of the geological sur objects life. Yet what variety, what entrain, which are clumsy in shape and crude vey, George Otis Smith, be exhausted he puts Into his fingers! Plodding In color. The European passion for before the middle of the next elephants, t.umpetlng elephants, ele- crowding on ornament is directly con- CLOSE investigation of the coal Interesting feature of the coal of the United States, made phants seeking for food or teasing a trary to the Japanese canons, Just as Is the large extent of western map gives a different our rooms, crammed with costly, but at the direction of President Roose- area companion, each portrayed as lignite probably phase of the creature's habits and Incongruous, bric-- brac, exdte no ad- velt by the geological survey, has re- one-fiftares of tho total sulted In a probably accurate sumtemper. As the tiny chisel travels miration in people who only of the is a country. This bring out marization of the fuel resources of over the precious surface, held In the one a the coal until beautiful thing at a time, carofully country. This has been recently disregarded as but the chiefly guided by In factor In the consideration of the naright band, portrayed thumb of the left, the carver smiles selecting that which is most appropri- a special map prepared by the sur- tions fuel resources. Gasprodiicei at his own merry conceits, and for- ate to the season and occasion, display vey, which Is the greatest tests of this coal made at St Louis, bureau in the world. gets the days of toll wasted on a piece it to the best advantage, and change Its high have however, demonstrated As shown by the new coal which In the end proved faulty, and It for another before Its aspect can map, fuel value, bringing It Into favorable had to be cast aside. He knows that weary the eye with the sense of there are about 327,000 square miles for industrial purposes of what may be termed the more eas- comparison Japan cannot dp without him, for the sameness. with the best eastern coals under skilled carvers are few, and their ily mined coal fields, with an MRS. HUGH FRASER. esti steam boilers. e h ty-fo- one-thir- Robert Love Taylor, better known throughout Tennessee as Fiddler Bob," devoted his maiden speech in the United States senate recently to an attack upon the Republican party and the executive. Some of his similes were very effective, as when he compared the federal power and the states to the centripetal and centrifugal forces that rule the universe, and when he said this of the railways: They are only one string of the harp of a thousand strings upon which our modern Orpheus Is playing the triumphal march of federalism. Senator Taylor got his nickname of Fiddler Bob from the campaign he waged in 1889, for election to the United States congress. He had nothing to aid him but his wits and his fiddle, but being a mountaineer himself he knew how to reach the hearts of the people of the hills. He set out for the mountain regions carrying his fiddle and wherever he stopped he brought it out and a dance was organized right away. The young folks danced to his music while the older ones were won by his merry chatter. He was elected. His next ambition was to become United States senator and he made the run. He received a telegram that he had been elected. by a majority of one, but later he received another that one of his supporters had changed his vote and elected his opponent. Taylor said nothing, but he made the run for governor of the state, this time having his own brother for an opponent, which gave to the contest the sobriquet of Wr of the Roses. The ancient fiddle was effective His opportunity to achieve and Bob was elected, lie was twice his final ambition offered Itself at last election and he ran for the senate once more, being triumphantly elected this time. Senator Taylor was born in Happy Valley, Tenn., in July, 1850. He graduated from Pennington college and in 1878 was admitted to the bar. He was on the Cleveland ticket in 1884 and again in 1892. Affer an office of chief executive Mr. Taylor entered the lecture field. the from retiring He is an attorney by profession, and he is also editor of Bob Taylor's Magazine, a publication that reflects the character and the Idiosyncrasies of the i elector-at-larg- f e man. : OPPOSES REVOLVING DOORS Louis Lepine, prefect of police, by issuing the ordinance forbidding the use of revolving doors in restaurants, hotels and other public buildings capable of holding more than 100 persons, on the ground that they are dangerous in case of fire or panic, has again demonstrated that he is the wielder of the big stick in Paris. The order has aroused the Indignation of those who have installed these doors at great expense, but the prefect is used to grumblings and To use an American expression, he allows their complaints to go In one ear and out of the other. .That the edict will stand goes without saying, for the office of prefect is more important than that of a cabinet minister. He is appointed by the president and is answerable neither to par mut-tering- liament nor to Paris. He M. Lepine is supported by a small army in carrying out his edicts. controls 50,000 troops, 12,000 police and 8,000 guards. He is a gentleman, a Bcholar and brother to a great medical luminary, Prof. Raphael Lepine, of the faculty of Lyons, and editor of the Revue de Medicine. It is a family of what was called in other days noblesse de robe, descending from generations of lawyers, doctors and government functionaries. M. Lepine was born In Paris in 1S46, became a lawyer and entered the In 1877 as sub prefect, and has risen through all the grades to prefect, to which he was appointed in 1893. So well has he met the requirements of his strenuous office that every president since that time has reappointed him. He was in charge of Paris during the Dreyfus troubles, with its rioting and violent possibilities. t NEW PRESIDENT OF PERU Senor Don Augusto B. Loguia, who was recently elected to succeed Dr. Pardo as president of Peru, Is paid to be one of the best friends tho United States ever has had in South America. The richness of Peru is proverbial, and for years Senor Legula has maintained that every effort should be made to encourage the Investment of American capital in enterprises Intended to develop and exploit the resources of his country. His liking for American methods is probably partly due to the fact that the large part of his early commercial training was acquired in the department of the New York Life Insurance Company. lie was with this corporation for years, and when he resigned his place, in 1889, he had worked his way up from a clerkship to the management of all the interests of the New York Life in Peru. Since retiring from the Insurance business Senor Leguia has been the managing director of the British Sugar Estates, Limited, which has several million dollars Invested In sugar estates In different parts of Peru, and he la also the largest stockholder In six other important Industrial and commercial enterprises. Senor Leguia entered political life In 1903 as minister of finance In President Candamos government, of which the present president of Peru, pr. Jose Pardo, was prime minister. President Candamo lived only six months after taking office, and when the vacancy caused by his death was filled by th election of President Pardo, Senor Leguia was made prime minister and in trusted with tho forming of a new cabinet. He retired from this office only a few months ago, in accordance with a custom which requires a candidate for an elective public office to resign before opening a campaign. Fenor is 45 years old, having been born at Lsmbayeque, In the aorta of Peru, on February 19, 18C3. , Spanish-Ainerica- f i n Bryce Interfered with Tennis Cabinet fellow-ambassado- r, l kind-hearte- d Heir to Mexican Throne Becomes a Monk beam-hammer- ivory-carving- ivory-carver- g d visile cen-'r)-A- a h coal-bearin- low-grad- e map-makin- g ! X Early Available Coal to Last 150 Years |